MASAYESVA v. ZAH

No. CIV 74-842 PCT EHC.

792 F.Supp. 1172 (1992)

Vernon MASAYESVA, Chairman of the Hopi Tribal Council of the Hopi Indian Tribe, for and on behalf of the Hopi Indian Tribe, Plaintiff, v. Peterson ZAH, Chairman of the Navajo Tribal Council of the Navajo Indian Tribe, for and on behalf of the Navajo Indian Tribe, Defendant, v. Evelyn JAMES, et al., Intervenors.

United States District Court, D. Arizona.

March 13, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James E. Scarboro, David C. Warren and Richard P. Barkley, Arnold & Porter, Denver, Colo., for plaintiff.

Terry E. Fenzl and John W. Rogers, Brown & Bain, P.A., Phoenix, Ariz., for defendant.

K. Jerome Gottschalk, Robert M. Peregoy and Edgar T. Bristow, Native American Rights Fund, Boulder, Colo., for intervenors.


ORDER

RE: SCHOOL LANDS

CARROLL, District Judge.

Defendant Peterson Zah, on behalf of the Navajo Nation,1 moves for partial summary judgment, requesting that this Court find that the Hopi Tribe and San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe ("the Paiutes" or "Paiute Tribe") do not have a claim to lands designated to the State of Arizona "for the support of common schools" in the Arizona Enabling Act. This is one of a number of motions...

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